problems building 1.7.1 and 1.7.2

[Derek Atkins]

Craig Askings <haakon@themadship.dhs.org> writes:

> Hi,

Hi again...

> I'm unable to build 1.7.1 or 1.7.2. ./configure runs ok but when I run
> make I get
> 
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnucash-1.7.1/src/core-utils'
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link gcc -I/usr/local/include/g-wrap
> -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include  -g -O2 -Wall
> -Wno-unused -Wno-uninitialized -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wmissing-declarations -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wall
> -Wunused   -o libgw-core-utils.la -rpath /usr/local/lib -module
> -L/usr/local/lib -lgwrap-wct -lgwrap-glib -L/usr/lib -lguile
> -lqthreads -lpthread -lm gw-core-utils.lo libcore-utils.la -lpopt -lm
> -lm
> grep: /tmp/buildd/libtool-1.4.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la: No such
> file or directory
> sed: can't read
> /tmp/buildd/libtool-1.4.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la: No such file
> or directory
> libtool: link:
> `/tmp/buildd/libtool-1.4.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la' is not a
> valid libtool archive
> make[3]: *** [libgw-core-utils.la] Error 1

As I said on IRC, the problem is that _some_ .la on your system is
corrupt.  You might want to do something like:

find / -name \*.la -print | xargs grep /tmp/buildd/libtool-1.4.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib/libltdl.la

This will tell you which package is broken so you can report it to
Debian.  This is probably related to the "libtool relinking problem"
(I don't have the Debian bugID handy) -- some people figured the right
way to fix libtool was to get it not to relink, and well that isn't
really the right answer.  Similarly, some people think the right way
to "install" is to use --prefix=, instead of using DESTDIR, and that
screws up libtool, too.

> I'm running Debian Testing with bits of unstable and g-wrap 1.3.2
> manually installed.
> Am I missing a program or something?

No, you've got a program that was built (well, installed) poorly.
That 'find' command will tell you which package(s) is(are) broken.
Once you find that, you can rename the XXX.la out of the way (I would
recommend XXX.la.b0rked).

Good Luck,

> Regrads,
> Craig Askings

-derek

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